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1) Lena
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
2) First love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
3) Gem & Dixie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their father returns unexpectedly, Gem organizes a short trip with her sister Dixie in order to avoid him.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face...
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a cold January day in 1851, twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell huddles on the deck of the Robert Peel. He is leaving his impoverished home behind in Ireland, while in America, his father is waiting with the promise of a new life. But as Patrick watches the shoreline fade from view, he feels torn with worry. His new friend Laurence Kirkle, who is running away from home, waits for food in the ship's hold. If the captain finds the young stowaways,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of his mother's shouting and the noise of the city, Peter runs away to a beautiful garden, where he stays until he finds a way to bring a part of it home with him.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 46
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when a local girl runs away from home with a stolen beagle puppy.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
13) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A 10-year-old boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Depression, escapes a foster home and sets out to find the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway.
14) Joey runs away
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.
16) Grace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
20) Punkzilla
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the w
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